Wednesday, December 1, 2010

Changing The Way We Think About Food

Here's a video I think you'll enjoy. It's about how Cuba has turned urban homesteading into their country's sustainable food system. Over 50% of their produce is grown locally, without the use of oil for transportation, and organically, without the use of chemicals or pesticides. We here in the U.S. could take some lessons from them.



5 comments:

Susan December 1, 2010 at 1:21 PM  

Yes, we definitely can. We are slowly coming around to this idea here, but we do have a long way to go. Very interesting!

Bobster103 December 2, 2010 at 8:51 AM  

I loved that video, thanks for sharing.

My Yard Clothing December 2, 2010 at 9:22 AM  

Awesome video. So interesting.

meemsnyc December 6, 2010 at 2:43 AM  

I love it! I wish more communities planted gardens like that! Amazing.

About Me

My Photo
I'm an almost 50-year-old woman trying to create a more sustainable lifestyle for my family on our less than 1/5th acre urban homestead in south Florida. You're welcome to follow our journey as we attempt to grow as much of our own organic produce as our little yard can take, raise backyard chickens for eggs, compost, and amusement, try to reduce our carbon footprint, learn to preserve food by canning, freezing, and dehydrating, and hopefully turn our little urban homestead into a profitable venture.

Stop Plagiarism

Page copy protected against web site content infringement by Copyscape

About This Blog

My Edible Yard was created in an effort to spur myself on while publicly journaling my trials, errors, and successes in the creation of our urban homestead. The key word here is publicly as I am famous for zealously starting projects and then abandoning them. In making my south Florida urban homesteading experience public, I hope to force myself to continue on with the project and actually create a more sustainable life for my husband and me. So please send kind words of encouragement, gardening and cooking tips to keep me going. They are all much appreciated.

Proud Member Of

blog search directoryTop Gardening Exotic Flowers Plants  SeedsGardening Blog DirectoryBloglisting.net - The internets fastest growing blog directoryGardening Blogs - Blog Catalog Blog Directoryblogarama - the blog directoryDigInDirt.com Garden BlogsBlogHer.com LogoBest Green BlogsThe Farmer's Garden

  © Blogger template The Professional Template by Ourblogtemplates.com 2008

Back to TOP